Exams are finally over!! And that means all the hours that were dedicated to uni work and procrastination now are going to be used for climming and procrastination! ^_^
Yesterday was my 1st day back after a 2 month hiatus and ZOMG everything hurts no thanks to Eugene. Today was another intense session with Mr. Len <3 and I think I am well on my way to rediscovering the joy of blisters, chalky clothing and topical lidocaine ^_~
Hopefully, it won't take too long to get back into form with a bigger emphasis on lead climbing now (outdoor gooo!!!!) and getting over our fear of falling.
<3
Friday 29 June 2012
Sunday 17 June 2012
Birthday Present
I've decided that as an upcoming holiday gift for myself, I'm going to get myself....
A SLOPEYMON :DDDDDDDDDD
http://www.soillholds.com/slopeymon-hard
They look sick and I want to train some more on slopers, so that'll take the training kit that I have at home to the beastmaker 1000 and the slopeymon. Once this finger heals up a little bit then screw it - I'm going straight back to training. As another small piece of news, I can't be bothered waiting any longer so I'm going to get climbing this afternoon :D Awesome to get straight back to it and I'm super excited about the slopeymon :D
A SLOPEYMON :DDDDDDDDDD
http://www.soillholds.com/slopeymon-hard
They look sick and I want to train some more on slopers, so that'll take the training kit that I have at home to the beastmaker 1000 and the slopeymon. Once this finger heals up a little bit then screw it - I'm going straight back to training. As another small piece of news, I can't be bothered waiting any longer so I'm going to get climbing this afternoon :D Awesome to get straight back to it and I'm super excited about the slopeymon :D
... Time off...
Taking time off sucks.
There's no other way to say it - having to wait for your body to recover is pretty bad especially when you think about climbing all the time :\ About a fortnight ago I punched a hold trying to get up; specifically, my fourth index finger knuckle on my left hand made contact with the hold, and that was pretty sore. Since the injury, I did some sloper stuff the following week but annoyingly I've now got some sort of pain in my proximal interphalangeal joint (the first joint after the knuckle) on the same finger -_-" which has made me take all of 48 hours off.
The only thing keeping me same is my fitness program and a newly bought, old-school bike which has turned out to be surprisingly good.... But here's to another couple of days off before I get back into it. I've been training pretty hard and started cracking into 4's in bouldering, which has inspired some confidence into me as well. In the near future I'm hoping to get a camera so that next time we go outdoors we can really get some nice photos/videos to ace together another climbing video, but right now I'm absolutely itching to get out. :(
There's no other way to say it - having to wait for your body to recover is pretty bad especially when you think about climbing all the time :\ About a fortnight ago I punched a hold trying to get up; specifically, my fourth index finger knuckle on my left hand made contact with the hold, and that was pretty sore. Since the injury, I did some sloper stuff the following week but annoyingly I've now got some sort of pain in my proximal interphalangeal joint (the first joint after the knuckle) on the same finger -_-" which has made me take all of 48 hours off.
The only thing keeping me same is my fitness program and a newly bought, old-school bike which has turned out to be surprisingly good.... But here's to another couple of days off before I get back into it. I've been training pretty hard and started cracking into 4's in bouldering, which has inspired some confidence into me as well. In the near future I'm hoping to get a camera so that next time we go outdoors we can really get some nice photos/videos to ace together another climbing video, but right now I'm absolutely itching to get out. :(
Thursday 7 June 2012
GeTu river in china :D
Cannot believe how incredible the stuff in china is.... It's only quite recently that this has gone up - but look; China seems to be at the forefront of everything, and this is yet another incredible example.
--update 11/06/2012--
plus another great article on vertical life:
http://www.verticallifemag.com.au/get-to-getu-mayan-smith-gobat-and-the-petzl-roctrip/
--update 11/06/2012--
plus another great article on vertical life:
http://www.verticallifemag.com.au/get-to-getu-mayan-smith-gobat-and-the-petzl-roctrip/
Monday 4 June 2012
Sloper Training
So I decided to start training with slopers since I jarred my finger the other day by punching a hold.... yes... that's a good story....
Anyway, my university has pretty neat-o bouldering walls and I quite enjoy the holds on them - they're pretty difficult problems in general and the yellows seem to be pretty tough - I have a tough time doing any of them (having said that I'm not super great anyway).
So since it hurt a little bit to crimp, I decided that my project when I'm bouldering at uni would be this sloper puzzle I decided to just junk together myself. The green climb (all slopers) only has four or five moves, but it's too difficult; and the red is out of my reach, so I thought if I combined a few of the moves on these climbs it'd be pretty awesome. Videos to come soon.
Anyway - two photos; the original photo of the bouldering wall, and another one which I drew my route out :D I should've probably added that I'm trying to use only the footholds of that colour but it's outright impossible, and the videos will show that I'm already pretty pumped by the time I got round to it. Also a small note, the wall's inclined by about 10 degrees so it's not the easiest thing in the world.
Loads of fun nonetheless.
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| Route added on this one; start L on green, R on the orange next to it. L goes to the yellow, both hands on yellow, push feet up and then attempt to get onto next orange, then the one above. |
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